"An Irish Country Doctor" by Patrick Taylor, MD

A friend loaned it to me on Sunday morning, and I finished it in two sit-downs - one Monday night, and the other last night. I just could Not put it down.

Here's a brief line on it from Publishers Weekly: "Barry Laverty is fresh out of school and uncertain about what type of medicine he should practice when he answers an ad for a physician's assistant in Ballybucklebo, a small Northern Ireland town populated, it seems, entirely by eccentrics. Laverty is initially taken aback by his new boss, Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly, whom he meets as O'Reilly is literally throwing a patient out of his office."

And they do mean "throwing" as in the conventional pick-em-up and toss 'em out the door throw.